RELEASE DATE: 05.04.2024
Packaging: Digipak
Region code: A/B/C
- Blu-ray world premiere
- Limited edition of 500 copies
- Restored for the first time and with new music
- Robots and spaceships in masterpieces from the early days of science fiction film
- An Ostalgica production distributed by Media Target
Info:
Cosmic Journey - Космический рейс
USSR 1936 Director: Vasily Zhuravlyov
Scientific advisor: Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky
Cast: Sergei Komarow, Xenija Moskalenko, Wiktor Gaponenko, Nikolai Feokstikow, Wassili Kowrigin: Professor Karin
Running time: approx. 82 minutes, original version with musical accompaniment and optional German or English subtitles
Exciting competition between two scientists for the first manned journey to the moon. The spaceship "Josef Stalin" succeeds in landing
landing and the space travellers become entangled in all kinds of dangerous situations. Top-level animation.
Bonus:
Jim Ripple's Roboter - Untergang der Sensation - Loss of Sensation
USSR 1935 Director: Aleksandr Andrijewski
Cast: S.M. Vecheslov, V.P. Gardin, M.G. Volgina, A.C. Chekulaeva
Running time: approx. 89 minutes, original version with optional German or English subtitles
Engineer Jim Ripple invents robots that are controlled by saxophones and radio signals. For the capitalists
This is the "solution to the proletarian problem", and they come up with the idea of creating an army of emotionless fighting machines.
Aleksandr Andriyevsky staged this constantly topical subject with unprecedented effort and utilised state-of-the-art technology.
The Voyage to the Moon - Le Voyage dans la Lune
France 1902 Director: Georges Méliès
Cast: Georges Méliès, Bleuette Bernon, Henri Delannoy, Victor André
Running time: approx. 13 minutes, original version with musical accompaniment
Based on the novels From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne and The First Men on the Moon by H. G. Welles.
on the Moon by H. G. Wells, Georges Méliès created The Journey to the Moon, one of the first
science fiction films. Impressive due to its animation technique and imaginative design.
Technical data:
Blu-ray Disc BD-25
Picture format: 1.33:1 (AVC / 1080p / 23,976 fps)
Extras:
Booklet with a text by Marco Koch
